1. Model: The bear dropped to all fours, whimpering
-Hal Borland, When the Legends Die Imitation: The Class scattered in all directions, running.
2. Model: As time went on, I began to depend more and more on my left foot for everything. -Christy Brown, My Left Foot Imitation: When the winner appeared, the crowd started to shout louder and louder in the stadium.
3. Model: Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttles out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors.
-Jack London, The Call of the Wild Imitation: Refreshed, feeling tremendous relief because of his vacation, in a mood much improved, he started to swing his tennis racket.
4. Model: He felt a heavy, sighing peace, like a soldier who has been comfortably wounded and knows that war for him is over.
-Edmund Ware, "An Underground Episode" Imitation: He spoke one slow, nervous sentence,like a friend who has often been hurt and believes that expressions now must be guarded.
5.Model: Six boys came over the hill half an hour early that afternoon, running hard, their heads down, their forearms working, their breath whistling.
-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony Imitation: Prom dancers spun around in the gym during the last dance that night, stomping loudly, their arms up, their bodies swaying, the band blaring.
Activity 9 (Practice 1)
2. Model: Near the spot upriver to which Mr. Tanimoto had transported the priests, there sat a large case of rice cakes which a rescue party had evidently brought for the wounded lying thereabouts but hadn't distributed. JohnHersey, Hiroshima Imitations: B. At the place in the room where he had left his books, there was a stack of journals that had evidently been brought by several of the more academic students but hadn't been used by the teacher. H. Outside the shack from which the patrol had started shooting, there was a blast of gunfire that the rebels had intended for the door lock but hadn't hit. 2. Model: There was also a rhino, who, from the tracks and the kicked-up mound of strawy dung, came there each night. ErnestHemingway, Green Hills of Africa Imitations: E. There was also a turtle, who from the half-eaten tomato and the hole under the fence, had visited the garden that day. G. There was also the horror, which, from the odor and snake-belly sensation of dead flesh, came there each time. 3. Model: The dark silence was there and the heavy shapes, sitting, and the little blue light burning. Imitations: F. The big race was ready to being and the line of cars, waiting, and the red flag still standing. C. The dense fog was there and the bloody bodies, dying, and the torn white flag waving. 4. Model: Light Flickered on bits of ruby glass and on the sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws. Imitations: D. I sat on velvet grass and under spreading blue leaves in the light-yellow atmosphere of a planed that orbited, slowly, stedily, its sx moons clinging close like new-born children. A. Stars twinkled on pieces of broken shells and on ruined sand castles in the sea-drenched sand of the beach that stretched miles, endless miles, its many shells strewn on it by high-crested waves.
Activity 9 (Practice 1)
1. Model: The bear dropped to all fours, whimpering-Hal Borland, When the Legends Die
Imitation: The Class scattered in all directions, running.
2. Model: As time went on, I began to depend more and more on my left foot for everything.
-Christy Brown, My Left Foot
Imitation: When the winner appeared, the crowd started to shout louder and louder in the stadium.
3. Model: Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttles out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors.
-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Imitation: Refreshed, feeling tremendous relief because of his vacation, in a mood much improved, he started to swing his tennis racket.
4. Model: He felt a heavy, sighing peace, like a soldier who has been comfortably wounded and knows that war for him is over.
-Edmund Ware, "An Underground Episode"
Imitation: He spoke one slow, nervous sentence,like a friend who has often been hurt and believes that expressions now must be guarded.
5.Model: Six boys came over the hill half an hour early that afternoon, running hard, their heads down, their forearms working, their breath whistling.
-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
Imitation: Prom dancers spun around in the gym during the last dance that night, stomping loudly, their arms up, their bodies swaying, the band blaring.
Activity 9 (Practice 1)
2. Model: Near the spot upriver to which Mr. Tanimoto had transported the priests, there sat a large case of rice cakes which a rescue party had evidently brought for the wounded lying thereabouts but hadn't distributed.John Hersey, Hiroshima
Imitations:
B. At the place in the room where he had left his books, there was a stack of journals that had evidently been brought by several of the more academic students but hadn't been used by the teacher.
H. Outside the shack from which the patrol had started shooting, there was a blast of gunfire that the rebels had intended for the door lock but hadn't hit.
2. Model: There was also a rhino, who, from the tracks and the kicked-up mound of strawy dung, came there each night.
Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
Imitations:
E. There was also a turtle, who from the half-eaten tomato and the hole under the fence, had visited the garden that day.
G. There was also the horror, which, from the odor and snake-belly sensation of dead flesh, came there each time.
3. Model: The dark silence was there and the heavy shapes, sitting, and the little blue light burning.
Imitations:
F. The big race was ready to being and the line of cars, waiting, and the red flag still standing.
C. The dense fog was there and the bloody bodies, dying, and the torn white flag waving.
4. Model: Light Flickered on bits of ruby glass and on the sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.
Imitations:
D. I sat on velvet grass and under spreading blue leaves in the light-yellow atmosphere of a planed that orbited, slowly, stedily, its sx moons clinging close like new-born children.
A. Stars twinkled on pieces of broken shells and on ruined sand castles in the sea-drenched sand of the beach that stretched miles, endless miles, its many shells strewn on it by high-crested waves.